(A)
Whenever the
director of rehabilitation and correction determines that the total population
of the state correctional institutions for males and females, the total
population of the state correctional institutions for males, or the total
population of the state correctional institutions for females exceeds the
capacity of those institutions and that an overcrowding emergency exists, the
director shall notify the correctional institution inspection committee of the
emergency and provide the committee with information in support of the
director's determination. The director shall not notify the committee that an
overcrowding emergency exists unless the director determines that no other
reasonable method is available to resolve the overcrowding emergency.

(B)
On receipt of the notice given
pursuant to division (A) of this section, the correctional institution
inspection committee promptly shall review the determination of the director of
rehabilitation and correction. Notwithstanding any other provision of the
Revised Code or the Administrative Code that governs the lengths of criminal
sentences, sets forth the time within which a prisoner is eligible for parole
or within which a prisoner may apply for release, or regulates the procedure
for granting parole or release to prisoners confined in state correctional
institutions, the committee may recommend to the governor that the prison terms
of eligible male, female, or all prisoners, as determined under division (E) of
this section, be reduced by thirty, sixty, or ninety days, in the manner
prescribed in that division.

(C)
If the correctional institution inspection committee disagrees with the
determination of the director of rehabilitation and correction that an
overcrowding emergency exists, if the committee finds that an overcrowding
emergency exists but does not make a recommendation pursuant to division (B) of
this section, or if the committee does not make a finding or a recommendation
pursuant to that division within thirty days of receipt of the notice given
pursuant to division (A) of this section, the director may recommend to the
governor that the action set forth in division (B) of this section be taken.

(D)
Upon receipt of a
recommendation from the correctional institution inspection committee or the
director of rehabilitation and correction made pursuant to this section, the
governor may declare in writing that an overcrowding emergency exists in all of
the institutions within the control of the department in which men are
confined, in which women are confined, or both. The declaration shall state
that the adult parole authority shall take the action set forth in division (B)
of this section. After the governor makes the declaration, the director shall
file a copy of it with the secretary of state, and the copy is a public record.

The department may begin to implement the declaration of the
governor made pursuant to this section on the date that it is filed with the
secretary of state. The department shall begin to implement the declaration
within thirty days after the date of filing. The declaration shall be
implemented in accordance with division (E) of this section.

(1)
No
reduction of sentence pursuant to division (B) of this section shall be granted
to any of the following:

(a)
A person who is
serving a term of imprisonment for aggravated murder, murder, voluntary
manslaughter, involuntary manslaughter, felonious assault, kidnapping, rape,
aggravated arson, aggravated robbery, or any other offense punishable by life
imprisonment or by an indefinite term of a specified number of years to life,
or for conspiracy in, complicity in, or attempt to commit any of those
offenses;

(b)
A person who is
serving a term of imprisonment for any felony other than carrying a concealed
weapon that was committed while the person had a firearm, as defined in section
2923.11 of the Revised Code, on or
about the offender's person or under the offender's control;

(c)
A person who is serving a term of
imprisonment for a violation of section
2925.03 of the Revised Code;

(d)
A person who is serving a term
of imprisonment for engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity;

(e)
A person who is serving a prison term or
term of life imprisonment without parole imposed pursuant to section
2971.03 of the Revised Code;

(f)
A person who was denied parole
or release pursuant to section
2929.20 of the Revised Code during
the term of imprisonment the person currently is serving.

(2)
A declaration of the governor that
requires the adult parole authority to take the action set forth in division
(B) of this section shall be implemented only by reducing the prison terms of
prisoners who are not in any of the categories set forth in division (E)(1) of
this section, and only by granting reductions of prison terms in the following
order:

(a)
Under any such declaration, prison
terms initially shall be reduced only for persons who are not in any of the
categories set forth in division (E)(1) of this section and who are not serving
a term of imprisonment for any of the following offenses:

(i)
An offense of violence that is a felony
of the first, second, or third degree or that, under the law in existence prior
to the effective date of this amendment, was an aggravated felony of the first,
second, or third degree or a felony of the first or second degree;

(ii)
An offense set forth in Chapter 2925. of
the Revised Code that is a felony of the first or second degree.

(b)
If every person serving a term
of imprisonment at the time of the implementation of any such declaration who
is in the class of persons eligible for the initial reduction of prison terms,
as described in division (E)(2)(a) of this section, has received a total of
ninety days of term reduction for each three years of imprisonment actually
served, then prison terms may be reduced for all other persons serving a term
of imprisonment at that time who are not in any of the categories set forth in
division (E)(1) of this section.

(F)
An offender who is released from a state
correctional institution pursuant to this section is subject to post-release
control sanctions imposed by the adult parole authority as if the offender was
a prisoner described in division (B) of section
2967.28 of the Revised Code who
was being released from imprisonment.

(G)
If more than one overcrowding emergency
is declared while a prisoner is serving a prison term, the total term reduction
for that prisoner as the result of multiple declarations shall not exceed
ninety days for each three years of imprisonment actually served.